On Monday Nov. 18th, 2013 both Tattican City Tattoo and Schiffmacher & Veldhoen Tattoo shops in Amsterdam will donate 100% of shop proceeds to help with the relief efforts in the Philippines. Please show your support and get tattooed! Walk ins only, contact shops for more details… Repost, share and help spread the word… Henk Schiffmacher will be tattooing at the Tattican Tattoo shop.

Deluxe Edition contains, original art from Hanky Panky, one limited, signed and numbered print, announcement poster from book release, copy of one of Henk’s childhood report cards and all Deluxe copies are hand signed, numbered and in cased in metal cover. Send PayPal payment or questions to: info@bluebonesociety.com.

Today the intention is to shed some light on this subject by presenting *bankruptcy documents levied against the museum’s main financer and location provider Mrs. Mary Jeannette Leonora Seret, and her private company by the name of Partners at Work BV…

*1.7 Cause of bankruptcy

The bankrupt company is engaged in the reintegration of long-term unemployed people and people who have trouble finding labor. The orders were to do so – after tender – awarded by the municipalities or social services.

At one point, a partnership was established between Mr. Henk Schiffmacher or the foundation Amsterdam Tattoo Museum and the bankrupt company. Mr. Schiffmacher, known tattoo artist, had the desire for its collection accessible to a wide audience in a museum and for the bankrupt company was ‘ideal’ means to place multiple people from the reintegration purposes to work in this museum.

Henk Schiffmacher and Seret agreed the Schiffmacher collection would be housed at the Plantage Middenlaan 62 location. In conjunction with this agreement Seret and her Partners at Work BV company had an agreement with the Dutch government to provide employees for museum, under which its main function was to give employment to reformed criminals and “underprivileged” individuals… Due to the nature of the Seret’s company she received financial backing from the local government.

Based on this agreement, Partners at Work BV claimed to invest 1 million Euros in the ATM…

*Housing was sought and found in the building currently in use at the Plantage Middenlaan 60-62 in Amsterdam.

It was intended that the activities of the museum would be housed in the foundation Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, which foundation is actually established and as such has a board. The intention was that Schiffmacher formally would lend the collection to the foundation and the bankrupt company would provide the staff for the museum. A contract as referred to above, however, was never actualized. Partly this and because of a number of other different reasons the collaboration between the parties was terminated. Until present, the operation of the museum was under the control of the bankrupt company. In 2011, an amount of approximately €1,000,000, – are claimed to be invested in the museum.

After the cooperation between the parties was terminated on October 1, 2012, Mr. Schiffmacher claimed his collection.

All in all this was the end of 2012 it clear that, in view of the above circumstances and financial position of the bankrupt company remained nothing more than to make a declaration of bankruptcy.

However, because Partners at Work BV and Seret failed to uphold their end of the agreement with the Dutch government, officials began to investigate. They found that Seret had mishandled staffing, misappropriated funds and failed to file proper tax statements.

*7.5 Mismanagement

Given the frequency of not timely filing of the annual financial statements , together with the severity of the time scale – see above 7.2 – is based on the provisions of Art . 2:248 paragraph 2 BW been an improper performance of duties by the board and is suspected improper performance of duties is an important cause of the bankruptcy. The trustee is considering next steps.

The first focus is to now assumed to continue the operation and sale of the assets. The trustee will also put the maladministration identified on the agenda along with the mismanagement of the [Partners at Work BV] board.

Seret then tried to use the ATM and Schiffmacher’s collection to pay off the government and avoid bankruptcy. In the pursuit of these wrongful intentions the museum had to be closed, and the collection was reclaimed by the ATM board and Schiffmacher in April 2013.

The legal documents contained herein are the bankruptcy papers filed against Seret and her Partners at Work BV company by the Dutch law firm of De Haan Advocaten & Notarissen.

It is clear to note that Partners at Work BV and Seret had nothing to do with the ATM except to provide location and staff for the museum. In the end they did neither…

Plans have been in motion since the recovery of the collection to re-open the museum in a new location in Amsterdam. The official ruling on the new location will be decided on Dec. 1st, 2013.

Henk Schiffmacher adds: “Seret has been removed from the Wall of Fame into the Wall of Shame after she stole her own plate (made by Gerard Born). The foundation is considering actions against this con artist, but we first want to see the actions of the official institutions.”

Yesterday, two years ago we opened the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum. With help from a lot friends from all over the world we managed to start a great museum and realized Henk’s dream. Opening day and night was one to remember forever! Unfortunately we had to end this in a bad way due to our “financier’s” incompetence. We were kicked out of OUR museum on Nov. 12th 2012, Henk’s collection was kidnapped in the museum. On April 1st, 2013 the museum closed its doors…

Thanks to our dear friends, followers and tattoo fans we raised enough money to pay lawyers, get the collection back and start the Pop Up store for our staff to continue in the name of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum.

I hope we’ll have a new museum by 2014. All of you that contributed in any possible way, THANK YOU!!! The positive part of all this was that we realized how big our loving and supporting family is! Thank you all again… ATM FOREVER!

The Amsterdam Tattoo Museum is proud to present a small portion of our Japanese Traditional Tattoo photo collection. Most of the pictures represented are from the early 1900s to present day. We will be updating the Photo Archive section periodically. Please click here to see the entire Japanese Traditional section. Thanks for looking and be sure to check back with us for more information and updates in the near future…

The Amsterdam Tattoo Museum is proud to present a small portion of our Modern Traditional Tattoo photo collection. Most of the pictures represented are from the early 1900s to present day. We will be updating the Photo Archive section periodically. Please click here to see the entire Modern Traditional section. Thanks for looking and be sure to check back with us for more information and updates in the near future…

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https://tattoomuseum.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/unknown-photos-from-early-1900s/#commentsMon, 28 Oct 2013 18:00:41 +0000http://tattoomuseum.wordpress.com/?p=502Continue reading →]]>*UPDATE* Several people have written us regarding these photos, and it seems that they are Hungarian prison tattoos taken of inmates. The text in most of the photos are the prisoners names, but in some cases the text describes the location of the tattoo, where and why the prisoner was tattooed. The following two comments were sent to our Facebook page and e-mail:

Schmidt Péter Hey! I saw the post that you are looking for info. The photos were taken of Hungarian inmates for their registry. The text is mostly their names but this one here also explains that the owner had it inked in America as a memory about his visit.

Edina Kelemen: These are Hungarian ( I think) prison Tattoos, the texts, are names, and which body part. Some pictures of the coat of arms of Hungary, and other I try to find more informations…

Thanks for sharing… -ATM

If anyone can provide more info about these photos please contact us info@bluebonesociety.com… The pictures were purchased by the museum in France at an auction. The text with each corresponding photograph was written on the reverse side of each picture…

This week we received a note from the city council that we are still in the running for the Oosterkerk in Amsterdam as a new possible location for the Tattican. We’ll keep you informed on this!

Meanwhile, our pop-up shop at the van Woustraat is doing great. With the help of our resident artists Danny Boy, Tiziana and Dan Dringenberg and several guest artists like Chris Garver, Lucky Bastard, Sousyu and later this year we expect visits from Indio Reyes, Bong Padilla, Tattoo Rich, Tim Hendricks, Corey Miller and Ami James. Please like our Facebook page or follow us on Instagram for more updates…

The latest news from the ATM crew

On February 28th we opened a pop up store at the van Woustraat 78 in Amsterdam. You can find lots of tattoo (related) books here and we have our crew Hanky Panky, Danny Boy, Tizi, Chris Danley and Yushi tattooing with us. We will have some great guest artists working with us in the future. We’ll have a new website in the near future with coming guest artists. Meanwhile follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for most recent developments.

The situation of the museum is still very complicated. The woman who was supposed to be our financier is bankrupt and there’s a curator now in the museum and they’re still figuring out who owns what. In the meantime we still cannot enter the museum or take the collection away. Every time they postpone the date the collection is released because of difficulties. However it should last no longer than one month.
Thanks to all the fundraising, individual people, but also big events all over the world, we could afford a lawyer. This is very important as we didn’t want to lose the collection because of legal matters. We expect to get the collection back at least and that is the most important thing. And we could afford to start a new pop up shop in honour of the museum. We have a great book selection and a tattooshop. Our museum office is also in this place. Without the help of this great tattoo family, this could not have been possible. We realize this every day and are very grateful to all contributing! We still need financial support, as we still get bills from the lawyer and if we want to open up a new museum, we’ll have to raise a bunch to rent a new place, renovate, etc etc…

We have no direct contact with the company and the woman who threw us out of the museum. We don’t know how this legally works, but the police won’t let us enter either. It’s called “intrusion’ and the person who rents the building doesn’t want you to come in has the rights to refuse you. The crazy situation now is that nor the owner of the building and the owner of the collection (Henk) are allowed in the building and the person who rents it but doesn’t pay her bills is allowed to stay there. Something about Dutch law….

We know a lot of people are wondering what the hell is going on and why they don’t hear anything anymore. The truth is: at some point we almost lost faith in ever getting the collection back. We were very confused and it was very hard to continue the fight. At that moment we couldn’t inform you, because we didn’t have a clue what was going on and were afraid we could only deliver really bad news. But thanks to all the support and love we received from you guys, we got the spirit back and have good hopes now! A very very big thank you!!!!

And people who donated, please send us your address and email, we will eventually send you something from the Blue Bone Society as soon as we can enter the museum! info@amsterdamtattoomuseum.com.

If you’re in Amsterdam, please come and visit our shop: van Woustraat 78.
Much love and respect from the ATM/Blue Bone Society crew,